Medical Coverage for 47 Million People Without

Michael Stephen Levinson

Candidate for President

There are 47 million people in America without health insurance. My innovative program will cover every one, my “policy,” rivaling the insurance available for the ultra rich. Here is how to provide for the uninsured, the coverage cost, much less than meets your eye.

First we cancel Bush's tax cuts that exclusively benefit his supporters, returning our wealthiest class to where they belong, in their own tax bracket, instead of crowding us. Reversing Bush's tax cut policy affects cable TV's blabberific, non-stop talking heads, Wall Street's gentry, lawyers, lobbyists, doctors, dentists, Members of Congress and their select bureaucrats; all those dyed in the silk Bush folk, most of his ilk.

Then, we tell our doctors and dentists, that for every uninsured person they treat, their medical charges will be treated as a charitable contribution, deductible from their income tax, up to $50,000 worth, sliced right off the top of their gross incomes. Then, at the bottom line, after all of their tax deductions are taken, an additional 25 thousand, or half, whichever is the greater amount from their charitable works, lopped off their pile of greenbacks owed to Uncle Sam.

With the above incentives in place, Dr.'s and Dentists will be elbowing each other for the opportunity to voluntarily treat an uninsured lo-cal dollar patient, as charity. Whatever the doctors and dentists cough up to cover their patient's blood work and office visit cost comes off their taxes, at the top, and again on the bottom line, after their deductions.

A couple changes in our tax code brings this about; one-liners via Executive Order by whoever is our President, as opposed to a lobby ridden sucker driven complicated Act of Congress, though the president's Executive Hors D'oeuvre, fringing the tax code, ought to require Congress' ratification, separation of powers and all of that.

Florida doctors might work full days on Wednesday, instead of going golfing, and half days every Saturday, with only three weeks in the Bahamas every year, instead of five. All our doctors will want to voluntarily participate, especially baby boomer Dr.'s, who are seeking to set aside as much as they can for their own retirements.

The working poor, instead of crowding the emergency rooms, accruing debt they cannot satisfy without a credit killing bankruptcy, will have a doctor to treat their families on a regular basis. Seeing as we are paying for the hospitals' unpaid emergency room services, in the form of ever higher insurance rates, reflecting the hospitals' skyrocketing cost of their 'horse pistol' care, all the parties involved, the whole country will benefit from our doctors' and dentists' charitable works.

Then the government can ask these working poor, would it be OK for uncle Sam to collect a voluntary five or ten bucks a week from their gross pay, not to be refunded, or tax deducted, to pay the government back. This way the poor can establish credit as bill payers, with a bill paying record, qualified to purchase a fuel efficient pre-owned car.

To reckon the actual cost of this innovative program, start with the medical deliverers' incentive: taxes are forgiven. Set those tax losses against emergency room savings. Include in our mix projected dollars we voluntarily collect from the paychecks of the working poor who will be glad to have a Dr. and the reasonable long term means to pay their Dr. for family services, as long as these uninsured aren't debt saddled, driven into the ground by some lobbyist's designated collection agency, interest compounded daily, or whatever else the D.C. shakers imagine they can use to sully an innovative health care program that covers the uninsured. For our health care industry the breaking issue is supply vs. demand.

Regardless your premiums, as boomers age, requiring more care, you'll be lucky to get five full minutes with your Dr. My program calls for free medical education, for Dr.'s nurses, dentists and all related personal. Springing open the med school doors will jerk the AMA into a swift boat infomercial battle, they, to push the astronomical cost of medical school, but not to fret, coming is a failsafe, readable plan on how to pay for free med education, for your healthy pre-election approval.

My son is a very smart man!